i was once was told by an jw elder it was a rule not to gossip or swear as it could harm someone, but i guess the new light allows this.
it was bad enough when they were calling people worldly now i heard a jw gossiping about someone and it was mean.just another reason i would never go back.
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"told by an jw elder it was a rule not to gossip or swear as it could harm someone,"
What? You had to be told by an elder that? Didn't your mother tell you not to talk about others? If you don't have anything nice to say then don't say it at all? If people rely on the elders to learn that they shouldn't gossip, then manners have really gone away.
lets see if that causes a problem.
i've been inactive for a very long time now (like 10+ years), so, i don't expect to hear anything from it, but my parents are worried i'll get df.
lets see what happens.
How sad that you resorted to following the world.
that's what the word says.
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colossians 1:16. for by him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through him and for him..
Seabreeze said "The first Christians certainly thought Jesus was God. His hand picked apostles thought he was God. How could anyone who witnessed Jesus' prediction of Self-Resurrection think otherwise?"
NO. Not true at all.
Mark 1:1 The beginning of the good news about Jesus Christ, the Son of God"
Mark is said to have gotten his info from Peter who also said in Matt 16:16 "Simon Peter answered: “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."
Demons are in the know as to who Jesus is and they said:
Luke 4:41 Demons also came out of many, crying out and saying: "You are the Son of God." But rebuking them, he would not permit them to speak, for they knew him to be the Christ."
John 1:49 Na·than'a·el responded: "Rabbi, you are the Son of God, you are King of Israel."
So tell us, which apostles stated that Jesus was God?
And Jesus did not predict a self-resurrection.If he was able to resurrect himself, then he was not dead. If he was not dead, then the sacrifice is invalid.
Peter said as recorded in Acts 2:32 "God resurrected this Jesus, and of this we are all witnesses"
vs 36 "let all the house of Israel know for a certainty that God made him both Lord and Christ"
God made him Lord and Christ. Jesus was nothing by himself. Who he is, is because of God his Father making him that way and giving him those titles.
that's what the word says.
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colossians 1:16. for by him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through him and for him..
Col 1:16. That's what Paul said and we know that what Paul said doesn't amount to a hill of beans if it didn't come from the Law and the prophets.
So where did Paul get the info for 1:16?
Verse 15 says "He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation"
Everyone gets confused by the word "God". I prefer the term "Supreme Being". (hereafter SBf) Jesus is the image of the SB, the firstborn of all creation.
Well, that is a fact. Since the SB said 3 times that Jesus is his son, and the devil knows that Jesus is the son of the SB as stated in Matt 4:3 : “If you are a son of God" and the demons said Matt 8:29 Jesus is the son of God or son of SB, "they screamed, saying: “What have we to do with you, Son of God? " And all of them are in the know.
But where does the idea that Jesus is the creator come from in vs 16 "by means of him all other things were created in the heavens and on the earth, the things visible and the things invisible, whether they are thrones or lordships or governments or authorities. All other things have been created through himr and for him."
John 1:3 says the same thing but John's biography wasn't in print yet, so Paul couldn't use that. So where did Paul get that info?
what i would like to see and maybe will get there in about another ten years is being a jw is a rewarding thing that enriches your life.. just like other religions out there you may not know the entire truth and maybe not quite right many of the beliefs but to have to idea of a belief centres and stabilises you.. i would like jws to be able to celebrate birthdays and maybe even other holidays if they choose to and not be judged by those who choose not to.. i would like jws to be allowed to have different interpretations of scripture and everyone is happy to agree to disagree and be able to say to each other yes maybe that interpretation is nearer the truth.
we just don’t know.. i would like new members of the gb to issue an apology for previous members getting so many things wrong.. they need to come out and say they were wrong about 1914 this date has no scriptural significance and the same is true of 1919. jws were not chosen in 1919 as the one and only true religion.. we just don’t know about so many things and it takes humility to admit we were wrong.. i would like to see even more lightening up on stupid restrictions like young people being allowed to have a varied friends and activities that are not with jws only..
"I would like JWs to be able to celebrate birthdays and maybe even other holidays"
Why would you want to do a dumb thing like that?
We are free of following the world and its holidays. Embrace that freedom.
"I would like new members of the GB to issue an apology for previous members getting so many things wrong."
Previous members of the governing body?
What has the GB gotten wrong? Nothing.
They inherited everything that they have from the prior GB's who inherited it from prior ones who got it from the president and Vice president of the Watchtower Society, Namely Knorr and Franz.
The things that they got wrong were the need for obedience so much that they became pharisees.
I mean, see how they had this Question from Readers about oral sex within a marriage because of the word that Paul used "unnatural". As I've said many times, why are we following Paul and especially to that extreme. He was not a prophet and his words were not from God.
https://youtu.be/-kdbs3lcsx8?si=icfla8tzg0p_wdcz.
the governing body of jehovah’s witnesses (gb) has done it again—another bold prophecy, another epic fail.
during their 2024 annual meeting, they confidently announced that the nations of the world would soon hand over their power to the united nations.
" In their narrative, the UN is destined to rise as the ultimate global authority, fulfilling their interpretation of biblical prophecy"
You would understand this if you understood that this was about the "cry of peace and security" and that the WT writers have gotten that wrong from the beginning.
The nations will not cry peace and security.
It's not a GB prophesy. The Governing body does not make prophesies.
And there does not need tobe a Youtube video about it.
It is a misapplication of Paul's writings.
i don’t know a lot about james penton but i think he deserves a better thread than the one currently on offer.
james penton, who died recently, grew up in a jw family in canada and served as an elder.
unusually for a jw, he studied liberal arts at university and became a history professor.
Slimboyfat, I talked to Penton on the phone in the mid 90s. He was not pleasant and not good to talk to. Just holding a chip on his shoulder. But anyone who is anti Watchtower is angry. In the late 80s, I talked to Walter Martin on his radio show about 1 Tim 3:16 and he accused me of 'That's not scholarly, that's not scholarly' and hung up.
i am non political and have never voted but nonetheless i have been keenly watching to see how the trump presidential race unfolds.
i believe that his involvement in propelling or influencing a leaning toward bible prophecy will unfold.
how, i can’t say but something tells me that this anomaly and outlier being trump is highly signifiant!
I'm just glad that the prosecutions and court cases against Trump will end or be put on hold. Such misuse of the courts for politics is wrong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umnhg0a9dlu.
evolutionists can change their model, and invent stories whenever they want to accomodate data.
biblical literalists are stuck with just one model, one account, and are unable to change it.
Evolution can't explain reproduction.
Evolution can't explain how the need to cleans blood altered DNA to create 2 kidneys on each side of the body. Then they started filtering and the output went where? Just in the body and the people died from sepsis?
Then the DNA got the idea that it needs to direct the bad things out of the body so it created uterers down. Then those uterers merged in a bladder that hadn't evolved yet because there was no need. Then the bladder got full and got backed up and people died. Then the DNA got the idea that it needs to mutate to create a urethra and send it out the body. Why not just use the penis as it has a hole in it for semen and sperm? And for women just make a hole to go out.
That's nuts. DNA can't think and mutations can created such precise organs.
i would like to start a thread on lies that the watchtower and their reps have told.
surely we all have one or two that truly sticks out in our memories, no matter how much we would like to forget.
my favorite wt lie: the reason they don't want to release the name of the "scholars" who worked on the new world translation is because they do not want to accept "glory and honor" from others.
How are any of those things Lies?
